What did Mike Pence predict about the pandemic in June 2020?
Mike Pence, Vice President of the United States ·
In recent days, the media has taken to sounding the alarm bells over a “second wave” of coronavirus infections. Such panic is overblown.
77,217 new cases in one day
Pence called alarm over a coronavirus second wave overblown. A month later the U.S. set a then-record of 77,217 new cases in one day, and July averaged double June's daily rate.
On July 16, 2020, the U.S. set a then-record of 77,217 new cases in a single day. July averaged 57,625 cases a day, double June's rate.
Prediction vs. outcome · Pandemic
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- Wall Street Journal op-ed, “There Isn't a Coronavirus ‘Second Wave’.”